taken place for all that detail to be known, but that ignores the fact (in my opinion) that it is a prophecy on the part of Jesus. My proposal is to take seriously the place where Acts ends as a marker for dating the series. If this is the case, Luke is writing Luke-Acts while Paul is in prison in Rome, AD 60–62. This is the most likely scenario, and in the Mark commentary in this series I will be arguing that Mark was written in the mid-50s. This makes best sense of the data. It is impossible to
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